Aujla to MLAs: Ready to swap Amritsar seat

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, February 12

Sitting MP from Amritsar Gurjeet Aujla has offered to swap his seat with any of the sitting party MLAs who are keen to contest on party ticket from the constituency in the coming General Election.

Aujla’s reaction comes after certain Congress MLAs in the Amritsar parliamentary constituency opposed the sitting MPs candidature for the coming Lok Sabha polls during a recent party meeting in Chandigarh.

Welcoming the suggestion made by MLAs during a meeting with the general secretary incharge, Punjab Affairs, Asha Kumari and Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) Sunil Jakhar here to field former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh from Amritsar, Aujla said, “I am a party worker. It is a prerogative of the party high command. I myself welcome if Dr Manmohan Singh contests from Amritsar.”

Along with Dr Manmohan Singh’s name, the candidature of Navjot Singh Sidhu, who had earlier represented the constituency, also cropped up in the meeting. “If any minister or MLA is keen to contest from Amritsar, I am ready to swap the position with him,” the Amritsar MPadded.